file-scalar

This package provides a File scalar data-type for your GraphQL schema. You can simply pass a browser File object as an argument to your mutations and the package takes care of the rest.

Your resolvers will receive a Stream.Readable, which they can then store or manipulate to their liking.

In addition, the stream passed to your resolvers will have these additional properties:

Type	Property	Description
string	filename	The name of the file on the user's computer.
string	transferEncoding	The encoding used to transfer the file.
string	mimeType	The mime-type of the file. e.g. image/png
string	fieldname	The name of the field in the request.

Fully functional example (with bonus image resizing)

In images/collection.js:

Here we're using Meteor-CollectionFS for file uploads and cfs:graphicsmagick to manipulate images.

import * as path from 'path';
import { getSetting, GraphQLSchema } from 'meteor/vulcan:lib';
import DataLoader from 'dataloader';

function createThumbnail(fileObj, readStream, writeStream) {
  // Transform the image into a 64x64px thumbnail
  gm(readStream, fileObj.name()).resize('64', '64').stream().pipe(writeStream);
}

export const DEFAULT_UPLOADS_PATH = '~/uploads';

export const Images = new FS.Collection("images", {
  stores: [
    new FS.Store.FileSystem("original", {
      path: path.join(getSetting('uploadsPath', DEFAULT_UPLOADS_PATH), 'original')
    }),
    new FS.Store.FileSystem("thumb", {
      path: path.join(getSetting('uploadsPath', DEFAULT_UPLOADS_PATH), 'thumbs'),
      transformWrite: createThumbnail
    })
  ],
  filter: {
    allow: {
       contentTypes: ['image/*'] //allow only images in this FS.Collection
    }
  }
});

Images.loader = new DataLoader(async function (ids) {
  const documents = Images.find({ _id: { $in: ids } }).fetch();
  return ids.map(id => documents.find(doc => doc._id === id));
});

GraphQLSchema.addToContext({ Images });

In posts/schema.js:

import { getComponent } from 'meteor/vulcan:lib';
import { Images } from '../images/collection';
import { Readable } from 'stream';
import SimpleSchema from 'simpl-schema';

function createInsertHandler(attribute, Collection) {
  return function (document, currentUser) {
    if (document[attribute] instanceof Readable) {
      const file = new FS.File();
      file.attachData(document[attribute], { type: document[attribute].mimeType });
      file.owner = currentUser._id;
      file.name(document[attribute].filename);
      file.type(document[attribute].mimeType);
      const { _id } = Collection.insert(file);
      return _id;
    }
    return document[attribute];
  }
}

function createEditHandler(attribute, Collection) {
  return function (modifiers, document, currentUser) {
    if (modifiers[ '$set' ] && modifiers[ '$set' ][ attribute ]) {
      const streamOrId = modifiers[ '$set' ][ attribute ];
      if (streamOrId instanceof Readable) {
        const file = new FS.File();
        file.attachData(streamOrId, { type: streamOrId.mimeType });
        file.owner = currentUser._id;
        file.name(streamOrId.filename);
        file.type(streamOrId.mimeType);
        const { _id } = Collection.insert(file);
        return _id;
      }
      return streamOrId;
    }
  }
}

const schema = {

  // ... default properties ...
  
  /**
  * This field will accept a file upload in mutations (new, edit) and resolve to an image 
  * URL in queries. Pretty neat, huh?  
  */
  featuredImage: {
    label: 'Featured Image',
    type: SimpleSchema.oneOf({ type: Object, blackbox: true }, String), /** IMPORTANT: SimpleSchema will coerce the type if we set it to `String`, so we have to add `Object` here. */
    viewableBy: ['guests'],
    insertableBy: ['members'],
    editableBy: ['members'],
    control: getComponent('Upload'), /** use the Upload form component (Provided by file-scalar) */
    /**
    * Here we save the file and return an ID in the Images collection.  
    */
    onInsert: createInsertHandler('featuredImage', Images),
    onEdit: createEditHandler('featuredImage', Images),
    /**
    * Resolve this field as a URL instead of an image ID. 
    * The URL will be accessible from the browser.
    */
    resolveAs: {
      fieldName: 'featuredImage',
      type: 'String',
      arguments: `
        # Image sizes allowed: 'original', 'thumb'
        size: String
      `,
      async resolver(document, args, context) {
        if (args.size && ['original', 'thumb'].indexOf(args.size) === -1)
                throw new Error('Invalid image size specified.');          
        const image = await context.Images.loader.load(document.featuredImage);
        if (image)
          return image.url({ store: args.size || 'original' });
      }
    }
  }
  // ...
}

See also:

• internal-graphql: Eliminate server-side fetches in Vulcan.js.
• webtoken-session: A server-side persistent session API for Vulcan.js.

License

Copyright 2017, Abdullah Ali

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